IP.Board 3 Facebook Connect

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IP.Board will now support a basic implementation of Facebook Connect as an option for logging into IP.Board and associating their account with the same login as their Facebook account. This feature will be off by default and can be optionally enabled by the administrator. We will have a technical specifications draft available in our knowledgebase upon release for those who care, but the basics are as follows:

 

1. You must first register an "application" on Facebook's website pointing to the integration file included with IP.Board 3. You then must enter some basic keys that Facebook provides in your ACP.
   
2. Users will have the ability to use Facebook Connect to login to your site. They will also have the ability to either associate their Facebook account with an existing IP.Board account, or create a new IP.Board account.
   
3. Basic profile data such as avatar, profile picture, "About Me", and status will be synced to IP.Board from Facebook
   

Det kan man verkligen säga är goda nyheter, speciellt för mig som kommer att fokusera på just Facebook Connect under 2009 och forumet kommer att ha stort fokus på webbplatsen med flera andra avdelningar knutna till just forumet. Till exempel använder Mortfiles sig av en brygga mellan forumet och Wiki, vilket om allt går som det ska betyder att även inloggning på MortWiki kan hanteras med Facebook Connect!